SM19_11711
XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

Asymptotic Behavior of Piezoelectric Plates

Thibaut Weller, Christian Licht
Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil, Montpellier, France


We extend to the linearly piezoelectric case the mathematical derivation of the linearly elastic behavior of a plate as the limit behavior of a three-dimensional solid whose thickness 2e tends to zero. Due to classical assumptions on the exterior loadings, a suitable scaling is defined by to study the limit behavior as e goes to 0. Note that the assumptions on the forces are those which provide Kirchhoff-Love limit plate theory while those on the electrical loading involve an index p running over {1, 2} that will imply two kinds of limit models according to the nature and the magnitude of the data. We show that the scaled states converge in a suitable topology to the unique solution of the limit problem indexed by p. These limit problems (p = 1 or 2) are connected with the physical situations where the thin plate acts as an actuator or a sensor.



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